The United States of America, from even before the time of it's founding, had seen far past its borders. This belief, labeled Manifest Destiny, was an explanation or justification for that expansion and westward movement. But as the sprawling country reached the western coast, growing in power and strength, its ideas on expansion shifted. The policies of the late-1800's and early 1900's were not all that different from the policies and ideas of past growth. Yet they did contain new ideas about where to go, how to carry these policies out successfully, and why expansion was justified, which can be understood in the political, economic, and geographical aspects on the expansion One of the main differences in the early expansion belief of the Manifest Destiny and the later belief of the 1890's and early 1900's was that the land, for the most part and at least officially, belonged to the Americans. It started with the fruits of the Louisiana Purchase, to the lands that would later be ceded to America in the Mexican American war. The progression went right from East to West, all the way to the California seaboard. Still the sentiment of expansion had lived on, even after the Turner Proclamation declaring the West, 'closed.' This sentiment lived in the form of jingoism, or extreme patriotism by national policy. For example, two American sailors were killed in the streets of Chile. This prompted President Harrison to invite Congress to declare war in the case that Chile would not apologize. On the Sandwich Islands, better known as Hawaii, the newest Hawaiian ruler, Queen Lil, made it clear she would shake off white American settler control. Settlers asked for American intervention, which led to a group of Marines running ashore and raising the American flag over the islands. The question of annexation of the islands became a huge platform in the election of 1896, whereby the winner; President McKinley promised annexation of the Hawaiian Islands. Cuba had been an island...

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...ManifestDestiny is a term used to describe the reason behind the US expansion into the West. What are the social, political and economical effects of this idea on the people living in the United States colonies and the West?
ManifestDestiny is a term coined by John L. Sullivan in 1845 when talking about the annexation of Texas. He believed, along with other expansionists, that it’s inevitable that the US population would spread across North America because the land is given by Providence to the United States and that it’s natural that the land should be part of the country [Doc 1]. The idea of westward expansion and ManifestDestiny had positive and negative effects on the politics, society and the economics of the United States and the Native Americans living there at the time. Policies that were created and Presidents that were elected favored the people of the United States and the Native Americans had no choice but to suffer from the changing and expanding movement.
There were many political effects of ManifestDestiny that shaped the whole movement westward. It was a generally accepted practice to remove Native Americans. Expansionists were determined to get land either through war or negotiation. Although it was supposed to be voluntary for the Native Americans to leave, many Native Americans who were already living there refused and were therefore...

...How did ManifestDestiny Change the U.S by the 1860’s?
ManifestDestiny: the belief that the expansion of the US was both justified and inevitable. ManifestDestiny was a lifestyle that almost all Americans lived by in the 1800s; ManifestDestiny helped shape the United States into the country it is today.
In the Earlier 19th century, the idea of ManifestDestiny spread like wildfire throughout the young United Sates. It started in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Purchase from the French. Soon after Lewis and Clark were sent to explore the west, and two years they came back with news of an amazing landscape. As John Sullivan later said, “We may confidently assume that our country is destined to be the great nation or futurity” (Doc A), Thomas Jefferson just wanted to make sure that great nation had a great chunk of land.
As Native Americans were being pushed west, Americans were in hot pursuit, searching for land to claim and farm. Eventually the United States Government passed laws saying, if you sustainably farm a piece of land west of the Mississippi River for five years, that land automatically becomes your property; this act shows the support of Manifestdestiny from the United States Government.
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The expansion of the United States from its thirteen original colonies to the nation it is today was a very extensive process, involving numerous wars and treaties. The greatest one of these expansion periods occurred from the 1830s to the 1860s, largely due to the idea of ManifestDestiny, the belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent to the Pacific coast. This development played a major role in dividing the North and the South by contributing to contrasting ideologies of the two regions towards social and economic foundations of the new territory, and would eventually lead up to the Civil War, literally dividing the nation into two. Territorial expansion fashioned racial and social divisions in the American society due to slavery, created new enemies for the States as a result of the annexation of Texas against the will of Mexico, and endangered the harmony between the North and the South by cause of the Dred vs. Scott decision.
Slavery, considered somewhat unethical in the North, flourished in the South, mainly due to the fact that the entire economy of the southern states depended largely on slave labor in the cotton and sugar fields. As the soil of the Old South was used numerous times causing it to lose many of its nutrients, plantation owners and farmers moved on to the New South, the land stretching from present day Georgia to Texas, an area much larger...

...﻿Native American’s View of ManifestDestiny
American territorial expansion was rejected by many groups of people for various reasons and Native Americans were no different. Native Americans resisted American territorial expansion in several ways. The following essay will not only consist of reasons for Native American resistance but also provide proof from several primary sources. These sources include Tecumseh’s Appeal to the Osages, where Tecumseh tries to unite dozens of Indian tribes against the United States expansion efforts, Black Hawk’s Encroachment by White Settlers, where Black Hawk, a Sac Indian war chief, conveys his life story to try and justify his actions in the Black Hawk war against the American settlers, and an Encounter between Omaha Hunters and White Squatters in Iowa, where a hostile encounter between Omaha Hunters and White Squatters was the result of dramatically different conceptions of landownership amongst them.
Tecumseh, a Shawnee diplomat and warrior, saw his homeland being invaded by white settlers and believed that only a pan-Indian confederacy could defeat the encroaching United States (Greenburg, pg. 57). To make this idea a reality, Tecumseh rode to dozens of different Indian villages pleading them to join the efforts against American territorial expansion and urging them to fight to reclaim their land. Tecumseh advised, “nothing will pacify [the white men] but the destruction of all the red men,” and that...

...ManifestDestiny is the belief that the United States is destined to expand its boarders and become a supreme power. During the early nineteenth century, immediately after the war of 1812, the migration west was a representation of American ideals; geared to spread institutions, democracy, and create a new and better society. The rising tide of Westward migration shifted American interests and insinuated tensions between the North and South. With the admissions of new states into the Union each side feared a threat of inequality, especially when it centered on the struggle between pro-slavery and anti-slavery. As the country expanded westward the economic interests and policies within the country began to differ depending on location. There are many opinions and interpretations regarding Westward Expansion and as some historians who study this period considers it as an economical opportunity to increase the American empire. Conversely, it can also be seen as the growing division within the American political sphere. Therefore, the question that arises when studying this period is whether, the benefits outweigh a nation being divided.
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Professor Joseph Schantz
History 100
28 November 2012
Manifestdestiny was originated in the 1840’s. It was the belief that Saxon Americas expanded their civilization and institutions across the North America. This expansion was territorial but the progress of liberty and individual economic opportunity.
Americans began to buy into settling unexplored western frontiers, they first moved into Michigan, Arkansas, Wisconsin and Ohio (Norton 2007). The nation expanded quickly in just five years. Texas negotiated with Britain for half of Oregon country and wanted more as the war with Mexico went on.
The Westward expansion had many consequences for the Native Americans the expansion meant that occupation of their lands. The United States continues with the European practice of recognizing the limited land rights to expand into the West with the legal purchase of Native American land. They were negotiated and signed by tribal members who didn’t have the authority to do so and some didn’t have the lack of knowledge of what they were signing (Dale Van Every, Trail of Tears). Once they signed they were forced out of their land. The Indians were encouraged to sell their Tribal lands and become what they called civilized people. Once they were civilized people they were able to get jobs and be farmers like the white man was allowed to do.
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...started back in 1848, where a man had found gold. A year later, after word got around and President James Polk had confirmed the discovery of this precious metal, people from all over left their life behind and rushed to California, a land where wealth was promised. In total, about 300,000 pioneers came in search of money and fortune, half traveling by water, through the present day Panama Canal, and the other half traveling by land, through the California Trail and the Gila River trail. The gold rush of 1849 resulted in major population growth, gold-seekers coming and transforming small settlements to massive cities and towns.
2. The California Gold Rush of 1849 is a justified reason for ManifestDestiny because both share the same concept of gaining money. The movement of ManifestDestiny is made up of three main ideas; and, power and money. The miners and the people selling them supplies were also focused on gaining money. By selling gold, the immigrating miners were provided with money and people like Levi Strauss earned a fortune by selling supplies. Those who participated in the California Gold Rush were able to fulfil their dreams of wealth and riches.
3. When immigrants started coming to California at a growing rate, the land’s resources were being used more frequently. These resources were eventually taken away from the people who had resided in the area previously, the Native Americans. In addition to...